Annual meeting of the Board of Directors in early May

The finances
of the Board of Directors for the following year are approved. These
include the national contributions paid by the member countries, and
the budget for the editorial offices

The
Board of Directors agrees with the publishers the number of pages to be
published in the following year. The price per page to be published is
specified by the contract with the publisher which is signed every five
years. The institutional subscription for the following year is then determined by the number of pages to be published.
The price per published page
has fluctuated but was as low in 1998 as in 1978, and even stayed at
the same level after the merging of the Supplement Series into the Main
Journal as of January 2001.

The minutes of the meeting are not published. Summaries of recent Board meetings are
available. Bonn 2008.